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cn coin 29103

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CN Type 4424 🔍

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Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
29.45 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1889,1106.30

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 63, nr. 13  (540/535-520/515 BC, octadrachm, abderitan standard)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 123, nr. h, pl. 120, pic. 5  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148 (Date.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 63, nr. 13 (540/535-520/515 BC, octadrachm, abderitan standard)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148 (Date.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 (red. chian standard)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 123, nr. h, pl. 120, pic. 5 ❐

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cn coin 29103, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_29103 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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